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A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certain doubts concerning predestination together with an examination…A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certaine doubts concerning predestination together with an examination…
A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certain doubts concerning predestination together with an examination thereof / written by William Twice ...A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certaine doubts concerning predestination together with an examination thereof / written by William Twisse ...
London: printed by J.D. for Andrew Crook, 1646
AN EXAMINATION of a Treatise written by Master Cotton, for the clea… › Question 6: The Sixth Doubt.
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There is therefore no place left for such a question, viz. How it may appear, that the declaration of the equity of Gods Justice was not pretended, but real, since all things are carried and come to pass by an absolute and unconditional decree of providence. For neither are all things (as it is evident) so carried, and if they were, I had rather such a question should come out of the mouth of an Arminian, then of any godly and judicious Brother.
There is therefore no place left for such a question, viz. How it may appeare, that the declaration of the equity of Gods Justice was not pretended, but reall, since all things are carryed and come to passe by an absolute and unconditionall decree of providence. For neither are all things (as it is evident) so carryed, and if they were, I had rather such a question should come out of the mouth of an Arminian, then of any godly and judicious Brother.
The Arminians you know upon a seeming fair pretence, are wont to object against our Divines, that God calleth the Reprobates rather simulate then sorio, in semblance rather then in ⟨p. 247⟩truth, if he hath before determined of them, by an absolute and unconditional decree. But the same answer your self would return to their objection, the same I return to your question, with more probability, (yea, I may truly say) with more safety.
The Arminians you know upon a seeming faire pretence, are wont to object against our Divines, that God calleth the Reprobates rather simulate then sorio, in semblance rather then in ⟨p. 247⟩truth, if hee hath before determined of them, by an absolute and unconditionall decree. But the same answer your selfe would return to their objection, the same I return to your question, with more probability, (yea, I may truly say) with more safety.